good thread

watch out for abusers. they are real, and this basic playbook — which slides into full-blown cultism on the more competent end of the spectrum — is not restricted to "white trash" addicts or reality TV https://twitter.com/peregrimmer/status/1248048335534952449

one of the problems caused by the typical-mind fallacy is that it impedes your ability to model the fundamentally predatory variant of human

have you lived the predator mindset? some people live there all the time — it's what they are. some people go there occasionally and come back to "normal." some people are domesticated (not inherently a bad thing)

quote from Meditations on Violence by Rory Miller

(I highly doubt that "utterly controlled" is a good description of Joe Exotic's internal — or external, for that matter — experience, but it gets the point across)

previous thread about trying to understand abusers (pettier type) https://twitter.com/sonyasupposedly/status/1212129901060341760